maps for your viewing pleasure – the KS transmission grid, and 2006 KS electric rates
February 21, 2008
The first map comes from Dan Nagengast of the Kansas Rural Center. It represents a map of Kansas transmission lines suitable for commercial wind. They uncluttered it by aggregating up to 3 line sizes and color coding them. The orange dotted lines are the permitted new lines from Spearville.
CAUTION: This map does not express the existing load on these lines. There may be some lines, especially the smaller ones, which are saturated. Anyone actually considering interconnection would have to find that out first.
EDIT: As of 03/04/08, this map is being updated. It is missing at least two new lines.
The next map comes via the Kansas Corporation Commission. It represents EIA (Energy Information Administration) data current as of January 2006. The highest rates in the state are in red. Interestingly, those areas are in eastern and south central KS, not western. Jefferson County, where I live, is interestingly mottled in red. (Which doesn’t really surprise me.)
— Maril Hazlett, www.climateandenergy.org
